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The blob, a patch of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, caused the deaths of an estimated one million seabirds, according to a new study.
Climate Change

This is the largest mass death of seabirds in recorded history.

Researchers have created a "strange metal" that could help us harness the potential of the quantum world in a practical way.
Quantum Physics

This could be the key to creating quantum technologies.

In a series of tweets on Thursday evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed some more details of his greater plans to colonize Mars.
Mars

Musk: "There will be a lot of jobs on Mars!"

A team of scientists is exploring a bizarre idea: finding a way to build structures, circuitry, and other materials out of living fungal architecture.
Biology

Let's just hope you aren't allergic.

YouTubers from "The Hacksmith" have made great progress on their half scale Tesla Cybertruck, drifting around a snowy parking lot in their latest video.
Advanced Transport

This tiny Cybertruck has more torque than a Ford F-150 pickup.

Quorn Foods will be the first major food brand to add carbon footprint labels to all of its food products, according to a new Guardian story.
Food

"This is about giving people the information needed to make informed decisions..."

A housing developer has a plan to bring affordable housing to San Francisco: pack people into tiny underground sleeping pods.
Future Society

"And no pod sex."

Researchers have built a flying robot drone called PigeonBot that features real pigeon feathers in an effort to understand the kinetics of birds' flight.
Drones

"Future airplanes may not flap their wings, but I think they will change shape."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) compared facial recognition tech to the dystopian sci-fi series "Black Mirror" during a House committee meeting.
Facial recognition

That selfie filter isn't as innocuous as you might think.

Over 20,000 people have offered to become Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's flight companion on his trip around the Moon and "life partner."
Moon

Starship and chill.

The decision by Delta Flight 89 pilots to dump jet fuel over a populated area and from a Boeing at an elevation of just 2,300 feet has left experts baffled.
Advanced Transport

"I'm just puzzled why these folks decided to do it this way."

Vanderbilt University law student Ramon Ryan argues in a new paper that the FCC's approval of over 30,000 planned SpaceX satellites could've been unlawful.
SpaceX

In "the most basic sense, it would be unlawful."

An experimental NASA program is tinkering with the idea of building a Mars or Moon base out of living mushrooms that astronauts would grow onsite.
Moon

Moon colonists could live in fungus-based structures.

A piece of astronaut Christina Koch's helmet fell off during an ISS spacewalk on Wednesday, forcing her to rely on her partner Jessica Meir for light.
Off-World

Yikes!

Scientists sequenced the entire giant squid genome, revealing new hints into how the unusual creature reached its huge size and developed a complex brain.
Biology

Sequence the kraken!

Silicon Valley startup Mojo Vision unveiled a working AR prototype of the Mojo Lens today, what it claims to be "the world’s first true smart contact lens."
Prosthetics and Devices

It even lets you see in the dark.

Researchers from UCLA have identified six shape-shifting G objects orbiting the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Science & Energy

"These objects look like gas and behave like stars."

An international team of astronomers have found new evidence of a second exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri, called Proxima c.
Science & Energy

"Proxima is our closest neighbor in an immense universe. How could we not be charmed by it?"

The U.S. Army is developing tech that uses facial recognition software to identify targets from up to .5 kilometers away, even in the dark.
Artificial Intelligence

The super-charged face scanning tech is costing the military at least $4.3 million.

NASA's new instrument, NEID, can measure the mass of a distant exoplanet with three times the sensitivity of any other equipment out there.
Science & Energy

NASA just unveiled a new exoplanet instrument named NEID.